Event date: Monday 7 March to Tuesday 8 March Location: Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI), High School Yards The Edinburgh University Law School and Europa Institute are pleased to invite you to the Lecture: EU Referendum Series - Alternatives to EU Membership This podium discussion aims to explore the advantages and drawbacks of possible alternatives to EU membership in case of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. Future relations with the European Union and access to the EU single market are likely to be dominant questions in the EU referendum debate. One can conceptualise a future relationship between the EU and the UK in a number of different ways: first, there is membership of the European Free Trade Area and the European Economic Area (often dubbed the 'Norwegian model'); second, there is the option of negotiating a host of bilateral deals with the EU regulating access to specific areas of the single market and collaboration in other fields (dubbed the 'Swiss model'); third, there is the option of a bespoke 'UK deal'; fourth, there is the negotiation of a free trade agreement with the EU; and finally, there is the option of having no deal and relying on international free trade rules, i.e. mainly the WTO agreements.
